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Capital productivity
Multifactor productivity
Partial productivity
Total productivity
Fredrick Taylor
Henry Fayol
Both A & B
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Frederick Taylor and Gilbreths (Lillian and Frank Gilbreth) are pioneers of
transforming management to scientific domain.
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Consumer surveys
Delphi method
Executive opinions
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Question # 6 of 15 ( Start time: 12:22:15 AM ) Total Marks: 1
Techniques having numerical data include which of the following?
Select correct option:
Subjective inputs
Qualitative technique
Quantitative technique
Delphi method
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Informations
Facilities
Materials
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Cycle
Trend
Seasonality
Random variation
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To make operations strategy effective it should be:
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Tactics
Strategies
Policies
Mission
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Question # 11 of 15 ( Start time: 12:25:17 AM ) Total Marks: 1
A gradual, long term upward or downward movement in data is referred to as:
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Cycle
Trend
Seasonality
Random variation
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Capital
Energy
Labor
Machine
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Certainty
Uncertainty
Risk
Bounded rationality
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Tactics
Strategies
Policies
Mission
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Which of the following functions of an organization consists of all activities directly related to
production of a good or service?
Select correct option:
Operations
Marketing
Accounting
Finance
Tangibility
Perishability
Simultaneity
As a manager, you have defined the purpose of the forecasts. What should be the next
step in forecasting process?
Inverse
Linear
Direct
Parallel
Cycle
Trend
Seasonality
Random variation
Certainty
Uncertainty
Risk
Bounded rationality
As a manager, you have defined the purpose of the forecasts. What should be the next
step in forecasting process?
Which one of the following forms of productivity has units of output per dollar input?
Capital
Energy
Labor
Machine
Certainty
Uncertainty
Risk
Bounded rationality
Maximin
Maximax
Minimax regret
Laplace
Delphi method
Exponential smoothing
Associative model
Cutting
Packing
Facilitating
Labeling
Judgmental
Delphi Method
Consumer Survey
Naïve Forecasting
Tangibility
Perish ability
Simultaneity
As a manager, you have defined the purpose of the forecasts. What should be the next step in
forecasting process?
Inverse
Linear
Direct
Parallel
Cycle
Trend
Seasonality
Random variation
In which one of the following decision environments it is impossible to assess the likelihood of
various future events?
Certainty
Uncertainty
Risk
Bounded rationality
As a manager, you have defined the purpose of the forecasts. What should be the next step in
forecasting process?
Which one of the following forms of productivity has units of output per dollar input?
Capital
Energy
Labor
Machine
Which one of the following refers to a decision environment in which relevant parameters have
known values?
Certainty
Uncertainty
Risk
Bounded rationality
Maximin
Maximax
Minimax regret
Laplace
Delphi method
Exponential smoothing
Associative model
Cutting
Facilitating
Judgmental
Delphi Method
Consumer Survey
Production Engineering
Operations Management
Industrial Management
Operations Engineering
Qualitative
Quantitative
Associative
Trend forecast
Tangibility
Perishability
Simultaneity
Quantitative technique
Associative model
Focus group
Judgmental forecast
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Narrower in scope
Value chain
Life cycle
Quality control
Energy
Labor
Machine
Certainty
Uncertainty
Risk
Bounded rationality
Which one the following formula or function can be used to measure the
performance?
Judgmental
Delphi Method
Consumer Survey
Naïve Forecasting
Objective inputs
Quantitative technique
Materials, land, energy and human and capital resources are the examples of:
Inputs
Transformation
Outputs
Productivity
Precision
Uncertainty
Reliability
Tangibility
Perishability
Simultaneity
Subjective inputs
Qualitative technique
Quantitative technique
Delphi method
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Which one of the following forecasting techniques is used to identify a trend when data is neither growing nor declining rapidly
and has no seasonal characteristics.
Delphi method
Naïve forecast
Risk
Cutting
Packing
Facilitating
Labeling
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A tool to measure effective use of resources and usually expressed as the ratio of output to input is known as;
Production ratio
Productivity
Reliability
Operations ratio
Price
Quality
Planning
Flexibility
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Which one of the following is NOT used for decision making under uncertainty?
Maximax
Mmaximin
Mminimax regret
EMV criterion
Usman
The role of a -------------- manager is to sustain, protect, and project the company’s operations side.
Project Manager
Operations Manager
Finance Manager
Marketing Manager
Which of the following provide guidance and directions for carrying out operations?
Tactics
Strategies
Policies
Mission
Subjective inputs
Qualitative technique
Quantitative technique
Delphi method
Randomness
Un qualified personnel
Within the operations function, which one of the following is a long-term management decision?
Control decision
Non-operational decision
Strategic decision
Tactical decision
Which one of the following is NOT the input in the transformation process?
Informations
Services
Facilities
Materials
Budgeting
Capacity planning
Inventory management
Quality control
Time series
Delphi
Naïve
Associative
Which one of the following reasons account for using moving average in forecasting?
In which one of the following decision environments it is impossible to assess the likelihood of various future events?
Certainty
Uncertainty
Risk
Bounded rationality
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Which one of the following correctly represents a set of time series forecats?
> Business
> Qualitative
> Ethical
> Both quantitative and qualitative
> Quantitative
> Introduction
> Participants
> Methodology procedures
> Data Analysis
http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_airasian_edresearch_7/5/1488/381018.cw/index.html
> Collaboration
> Control
> Change
> Commitment
> A constant
> To give your dissertation a proper acade mic appearance, with lots of
references.
> Because without it, you could never reach the required word-count.
> To find out what is already known about your area of interest.
Which of the following questions might invade the privacy of a research participant?
Which of the following terms represents the most general, broad concept?
> Test
> Assessment
> Measurement
> Instrument
Which of the following types of scales is likely measuring students' deeply held beliefs
about ideas, people, or objects?
Which one of the following is not a type of scales used in measurement of concepts?
> Normal Scale
> The experiences of employees who begin work on the same day.
> The collection of data from more than one case at one moment in time
> A study of one particular section of society, e.g. the middle classes
Which of the following types of survey research is often used for program evaluation or
accreditation purposes?
Which of the following is not an advantage of the self-completion questionnaire over the
structured interview?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:k7juFqlyUe0J:www.u.arizona.e
du/~dusana/psych290Bpresession06/notes/Ch6%2520Research%2520strategies%2520an
d%2520validity2.ppt+When+internal+validity+is+high,+external+validity+is+low&cd=4
&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=pk
> Qualitative
> Ethical
> Both quantitative and qualitative
> Quantitative
http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_airasian_edresearch_7/5/1488/381018.cw/index.html
> Transportation
> Individuals
> Pollutants
> Drugs
http://books.google.com.pk/books?id=Cf1D0DvWXI8C&pg=PA428&lpg=PA428&dq=
Critical+decision+area+in+questionnaire+construction+is++Question+content&source=b
l&ots=lbQJTG8VBt&sig=CSyqp-0mOU8_Vk1tWtSwLOPZUuk&hl=en&ei=lWzgS-
SwG4yiONid2KYI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDEQ6AEw
CTgK#v=onepage&q&f=false
> High
> Moderate
> Low
> Nil
> Guide your decisions about what data to collect and from where.
http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199284986/01student/cqs/ch02/?view=Standard
> Help you decide which research area interests you.
> Ensure that your findings have external validity.
> Prevent you from thinking about research strategies.
> To clearly articulate the research question, to provide operational, definitions and
ensuring its testability.
> To clearly articulate the research question, outlining the conditions in which the
phenomena of interest are to be investigate.
> To provide operational definitions of the ideas or concepts involved in the research.
> Ensuring that their research question is empirically testable.
Ref: mid terms paper
> To help make the experience enjoyable, children should be given substantial
incentives to participate.
> The children should be asked if they want to participate.
> Teachers of the children in their classes should give informed consent.
> Parents must give consent.
Ref:
https://www.us.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199284986/01student/cqs/ch11/?view=Standard
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> Does not allow for findings to feed back into the body of knowledge.
> They are tentative until the facts prove them true.
> They provide possible explanations for the phenomenon under study.
> They lead to testable hypotheses through the process of deduction. Page 14
Question No: 79 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Which of the following refers to"A condition or characteristic that can take on different
values or categories"?
> A constant
> A variable
Ref
http://books.google.com.pk/books?id=ShmNdm0bwJsC&pg=PT29&lpg=PT29&dq=A+c
ondition+or+characteristic+that+can+take+on+different+values+or+categories+variable
&source=bl&ots=eqwDjuQBde&sig=oxQ21eRim0kkrtkcKrim-
SXofeM&hl=en&ei=48HxS6OmDoqFsAaY6KnGBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result
&resnum=5&ved=0CCYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
“Downsizing in an organization in future is associated with the level of job security of the
present employee in an organization” is an example of which of the following?
Why is the statement” What are the effects of extracurricular activities on learning
development of school age children” not a good statement of a quantitative research
question?
> Because the study would be too difficult to do given all the different extracurricular
activities.
> Because the statement was not specific enough to provide an understanding of the
variables being investigated.
> Because there are not enough school age children engaged in extracurricular activities
to conduct the study.
Ref: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22683412/Lecture-Notes-Research-Chaper-1-
9#fullscreen:on
> Distance
> Order
> Categorize
> Distance
> Order
Which of the following effect in internal validity occurs when test units with extreme
scores move closer to the average score during the course of the experiment.
> Maturation
> Instrumentation
Ref :
http://books.google.com.pk/books?id=TKb8iORscegC&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=Wh
ich+of+the+following+effect+in+internal+validity+occurs+when+test+units+with+extre
me+scores+move+closer+to+the+average+score+during+the+course+of+the+experiment
&source=bl&ots=xSuVEUWg8U&sig=M-
L1x18xiCVsHK149Xg2HSjA8cg&hl=en&ei=hMzxS4gdzfr8BuDLmOcG&sa=X&oi=bo
ok_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
When you are confident that the experimental manipulation produced the changes you
measured in the dependent variable, your study probably has good ________ validity.
> Internal
> External
> Causal
> Construct
Research may differ along a series of dimensions. Which of the following may be applied
to this statement?
> Contrived
> Introduction
> Figures
> References
Which of the following surveys are more impersonal than face-to-face interviews?
> Specifies the relationship between variables that the researcher expects to find.
Ref: http://www.southalabama.edu/coe/bset/johnson/mcq/mc3.htm
> Right
> Obligation
An advantage of social survey research is that the researcher can ensure that the
anonymity of the respondent is maintained by administering the same questions to each
individual.
> Opinion
> Speculation
> Empiricis m
> Rationalism
Which of the following statements would you be least likely to find in an informed
consent form?
> Your data will be coded in a way that will protect your identity.
> This study has been approved by the university’s Institutional Review Board.
> The full purpose of the study will be explained to you at the end of the session and the
complete results of the study will be available to you when the study is over.
> The re is no penalty for not starting the study, but once you begin, you are
obligated to complete the session.
All of the following are part of the ethics code for animal research, except;
> The researcher must be an expert about the species being studied.
> Procedures using reinforcement are preferred over those using punishment.
> Animal studies that are purely educational in purpose cannot be done.
> If the animal must be killed at the end of the study, a painless procedure must be
used.
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Mean
Range
Percentile
Mode
Calculate statistics
Understand relationships between variables
Obtain the distribution of responses for each question
Create tables which display the survey results
Naturalistic observation
Case study
Laboratory observation
Survey
Construct
Internal
External
Causal
Cumulative
Deterministic
Unethical
Rationalism
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The elaboration of the variables in the theoretical framework addresses which type of
questions?
Select correct option:
Why we expect certain relationships to exist
How we expect certain relationships to exist
Both of the given questions
None of the given questions
Does studying Latin improve the standardized vocabulary test scores of seventh
grade students?
Does drilling fifth grade students with multiplication facts improve their standardized test
scores?
What is the relationship between students' math attitudes and math achievement?
Should students have access to controversial novels in school?
Ratio
Nominal
Interval
Dichotomous
It is ethical.
It can be investigated through the collection and analysis of data.
It focuses on a philosophical or ethical issue.
It is theoretically or practically significant.
Sampling validity
External validity
Construct validity
Internal validity
The forecasting model that attempts to predict the future value based on the past data is known as:
Delphi Method
Associative Models
Naïve Forecasting
Which of the following functions of an organization consists of all activities directly related to production of a good or
service?
Operations
Marketing
Accounting
Finance
Inverse
Linear
Direct
Parallel
Which one of the following is NOT used for decision making under uncertainty?
Maximax
Mmaximin
Mminimax regret
EMV criterion
As a manager, you have defined the purpose of the forecasts. What should be the next step in forecasting process?
Subjective inputs
Objective inputs
Quantitative technique
Materials, land, energy and human and capital resources are the examples of:
Inputs
Transformation
Outputs
Productivity
Budgeting
Capacity planning
Inventory management
Quality control
Subjective inputs
Qualitative technique
Quantitative technique
Delphi method
The role of a -------------- manager is to sustain, protect, and project the company’s operations side.
Project Manager
Operations Manager
Finance Manager
Marketing Manager
Trend
Seasonality
Random variation
Which one the following formula or function can be used to measure the performance?
one of the following refers to a decision environment in which relevant parameters have known values?
Certainty
Uncertainty
Risk
Bounded rationality
Which one of the following reasons account for using moving average in forecasting?
6- Hypothesis refers to
A. Planning
C. Lot of rewriting
C. Knowledge disaccumulates
A. Descriptive research
B. Exploratory research
C. Applied research
D. Explanatory research
A. Primary data
B. Secondary data
C. Qualitative data
14- After identifying the important variables and establishing the logical reasoning in
theoretical framework, the next step in the research process is
A. To conduct surveys
D. Both A & B
16-Personal interviews conducted in shopping malls are known as:
A. Mall interviews
B. Mall intercept interviews
C. Brief interviews
D. None of the given options
18-A list of questions which is handed over to the respondent, who reads the
questions and records the answers himself is known as the:
I. Interview schedule
J. Questionnaire
K. Interview guide
L. All of the given options
19-One of the most critical stages in the survey research process is:
M. Research design
N. Questionnaire design
O. Interview design
P. Survey design
U. Response rate
V. Participation rate
W. Inflation rate
X. None of the given options
22-To obtain the freest opinion of the respondent, when we ask general
question before a specific question then this procedure is called as the:
Y. Research technique
Z. Qualitative technique
AA. Funnel technique
BB. Quantitative technique
55. Which one of the following sets is the measure of central tendency?
a. Mean, standard deviation, mode
b. Mean, median, standard deviation
c. Arithmetic mean, median, mode
d. Standard deviation, internal validity, mode
A. Categorical variable
B. Discontinuous variable
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above
A. Descriptive Hypothesis
B. Directional Hypothesis
C. Relational Hypothesis
D. All of the above
67-‘Science’ refers to……….
A. Deterministic
B. Rationalism
C. Empirical
D. Abstraction
A. Variables
B. Hypothesis
C. Concept
D. Theory
A. Field research
B. Descriptive research
C. Basic research
D. Applied research
E. Mall interviews
F. Mall intercept interviews
G. Brief interviews
H. None of the given options
I. Research technique
J. Qualitative technique
K. Funnel technique
L. Quantitative technique
73-In, ……… the interviewer and members jointly control the pace and
direction of the interview.
M. Field interview
N. Telephonic interview
O. Both A and B
P. None of the given options
Q. Pretest
R. Posttest
S. Matching
T. Experiment
P (A) P (B)
P (A) + P (B)
P (A) * P (B|A)
P(B\A)*P(B)
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-1/2
If two fair die are thrown, the probability of getting a double six is:
1/6
2/36
1/36
1/12
If A and B are independent events with P(A) = 0.05 and P(B) = 0.65, then P(A|B) = :
0.65
0.05
0.03
0.07
Twenty percent of the students in a class of 100 are planning to go to graduate school. The standard deviation of this binomial
distribution is:
20
16
1/2
2
Probability of an impossible event is always:
Zero
E(4X + 5) =__________
12 E (X)
4 E (X) + 5
16 E (X) + 5
16 E (X)
The location and shape of the normal curve is (are) determined by:
Mean
Variance
The probability of success changes from trial to trial, is the property of:
Binomial experiment
Hypergeometric experiment
Poisson experiment
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When studies come out as expected, inductive support for the theory is gained.
If an experiment fails, discarding the experiment is an example of affirming the
consequent.
When a hypothesis is not supported, virtually nothing has been learned about the theory.
A good theory will be inclusive enough to explain every possible research outcome.
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The most difficult sources to locate are;
Select correct option:
Dissertations(I
(I select this)
Government Documents
Scholarly Books
Dependent variable
Extraneous variable
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Perceptions
Theory
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What research is?
Select correct option:
A lab experiment
A report
A procedure
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The independent variable is;
Select correct option:
A confounding variable
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When we say that science is parsimonious, we mean that:
Select correct option:
The best scientific theories are those that offer the simplest explanations for a law.
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Health care
Business
Government offices
Imaginary worlds(Correct)
(Correct)
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It is so vague that it fits any and all possible results. (I select this)
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Business research
Grounded theory
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They avoid reporting statistical data so one can interpret the results more easily.
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Theory
Conclusion
Hypothesis (Correct)
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The future
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An independent variable.
A dependent variable.
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